Ralph Waldo Emerson on Happiness Quotes

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitos and silly people."

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."

"Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

"The simple sense of life is enough for any one's happiness."

"The soul's emphasis is always right."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world."

"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius."

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

"Be not the slave of your own past — plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve from generation to generation the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!"

"Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."

"Life is a festival only to the wise."

"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn."

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

"The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven."